Introduction to Digital Communication and Culture

This course introduces students to the major critical methods, policy issues, and creative forms involved in contemporary digital media in the United States and across the globe. The course will foster discussion regarding the ways digital media affects ways of thinking, availability and access to ideas and cultures, ways of storing knowledge and memory, and avenues for cultural resistance and activism. Students will engage with academic and popular texts to analyze the history and evolution of the role of digital communication in human interaction and culture. Through written reflections, analysis of media, lectures, and films, students will consider how digital media functions in educational, professional, and social contexts.

Fall, Spring

FIS - Flexible Core - Individual and Society

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